Reclusive author J.R. Stone grew up in Groves. His first novel is "The Long Road from Perdition."
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Reclusive author J.R. Stone grew up in Groves. His first novel is...

Frances Harris, now known as Frances Collins, fled with her granddaughter to Central American in 1994, to protect the child, then 3, from alleged abuse. She wrote a book, "Seashell Prisoners" about her experience, which resulted in her arrest and incarceration in federal prison in 2002.
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Frances Harris, now known as Frances Collins, fled with her...

Former Beaumont resident Jeffery Hopper has written a book about his experience in a daring daylight robbery of a Las Vegas casino, his arrest and incarceration in federal prison and subsequent religious conversion that sent him through seminary and into hospice and prison ministry.
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